I understood what you meant lol. I think it's ridiculous there's allowed to be entries in languages other than the official languages for each country as it is, meaning all of Estonia's entries should be in Estonian (Estonian > English)

We had today this ugly anniversary of deportations to Siberia in 1941. Thousands of Estonians were sent away just because they were not Russians nor commies. A symbolic punk song by Villu Tamme and JMKE: Külmale Maale (To the Cold Land): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X12HZYXZYpI

Aleco wrote:Could someone write the lyrics to this and this song? The Lion King has always been my favorite animated movie, and it seems like it was recently made available on YouTube. Or at least the songs were

I have always found it really difficult to follow the lines of (animated)movies, which have been dubbed into Estonian...But I'll do my best.

Aleco wrote:Thanks! And it's great seeing that even Estonian natives have problems understanding it sometimes

You are welcome!

Well... not just sometimes - most of the time.I don't know what are they doing wrong when they dub (animated)movies into Estonian, but for some reason it's usually more difficult to understand than the English version (or maybe just it doesn't bother me if I can't catch or understand all the words in English, but if it's Estonian, then there has to be something wrong...).

Maybe it's also because of the limitations: they have limited timeframe to say some things (lip movement & voice should match) and they have to say really specific things which may not have a good way of saying it in Estonian. Especially the songs, where the soundtrack and the lyrics in another language already exist and then they have to fit in the Estonian version there, somehow...

Livonian is a version of Estonian and Tulli lum -> Tuline lumi -> Hot snow. eijõ-eijõ -> äiu-äiuOne can also replace tuline as tulli (pronounced as tulьlьi) in modern Estonian when speaking to children.